Category Archives: UNIX

Licenses

Posted on November 2, 2009 by MXH

Last week, a reader wrote in with this question: [Y]ou’ve got all this great code, but you haven’t declared a license. Is it public domain, or BSD? This is, as they say, a fair question. I address it today.

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Slicehost

Posted on April 9, 2009 by MXH

Editorial Note: This is my 100th post. Thanks for reading. Today, I signed up for a VPS at Slicehost. This is my first time dealing with them, and so far I’m very happy. I did encounter a fair number of … Continue reading →

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A sed Quirk

Posted on March 31, 2009 by MXH

The sed utility is a useful, if slightly obscure, tool. (Fortunately, there are excellent guides available to its use.) Today, however, I ran across an annoying incompatibility in one of its features, which I want to briefly discuss.

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WordPress Backups (con’t)

Posted on March 28, 2009 by MXH

This is a quick addenda to yesterday’s notes on backing up self-hosted WordPress blogs. I noticed that I neglected to make the scripts I described available as downloads, and that I didn’t illustrate the final piece of the puzzle: a … Continue reading →

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WordPress Backups

Posted on March 27, 2009 by MXH

If you run a self-hosted WordPress Blog, it’s probably a good idea to back it up now and again. Here I present some code that I use to back up my blog to Amazon’s S3 service, which might help you … Continue reading →

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Mac OSX Tip

Posted on February 19, 2009 by MXH

A useful little tidbit from a friend of a friend: Hiding a CLI-only user account in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

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Generating HTML from Python

Posted on January 30, 2009 by MXH

Occasionally I will write scripts which generate HTML documents. I understand the view that HTML is “object code”, and that its formatting doesn’t matter, but I’ve never been completely able to adopt that position. As a result, I usually try … Continue reading →

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Command Line Quickies

Posted on October 3, 2008 by MXH

One of the best things about working in the UNIX environment is the powerful command-line interface, which includes the available shells, scripting languages, standard utilities, and facilities for I/O manipulation. The strength of this interface is its modularity; a large-ish … Continue reading →

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